The Cecil Whig., 1887-11-26

4NC" llhNSl, llei tlolt dllu .Ol)ll my
field turned out to do him honor. At
Boston the greatest crowd that the
city had seen since the visit of Wash
lngton, twenty-siX years before, came
together, and salutes were fired from
Dorchester Heights, Boston Com
mon and from the forts in the harbor.
The whole city was decorated, and
cavalade OF citizens escorted him
into the city.
From Boston President Monroe
went through New Hampshire, where
he called upon the lady who, as a
girl, had dressed the wounds he re-
ceived while in the Revolutionary
War, and he met everywhere old
Revolutionary soldiers with whom
he hal served. He crossed the State
of Vermont to Plattsburg, N. Y, and
then proceeded to Sackett's HarbOr.
Ogdensburgh and Detroit. He re-
turned to Washington the latter part
of September, having consumed
four months in tour that could now
be gone over, by continuous travel,
in about four days.
Judge A. R. Botcler, now of the
A'torney-Generals Office, at Wash
ington, WIS boy at Princeton Col
lege when President Jackson made
his famous tour through the Eastern
States in 1888. 1t was taken shortly
after his famous notification de cree,
and the North went wild in their
adulation of Old Hickory. Balti-
more and Philadelphia had received
Jackson in fine style and he was to
pass through Princeton on his way 20
New York. Judge Boteler's eyes
now brighten as he tells how excited
the college boys were over Jackson S
expected coming, and they twinkled
as he told me how he, with several OF
his mates, ran away from Princeton
the night before and went to meet
the President at Trenton, that they
might accompany him to Princeton.
During the journey the following in
cident occurred, which | give in
Judge Boteler's own words:
"The people came il crowds from
the surrounding country to see the
Presidential party pass by, and Cen
eral Jackson was uniformly kind to
all. He rode in splendid four horse
coach, which was driven by Old Re
sides, the noted stage owner, and
General Eaton, the Secretary of War,
sat beside Jackson in the coach.
About midway in the journey poor
woman was seen out in the plowed
fields alongside of the road, hurrying
toward the carriage. She had almost
reached the road when the carriages
came up. The coachmen were about
to whip up their horses, when Jack
son, seeing the woman, called out in
sentorian tones, Halt
Gas the carriage stopped, he said
to Eaton: Don't you see that Lady,
She wishes to meet US
cat this moment the poor bare
headed woman, with little boy un-
der her arm, had reached the fence
AS she crawled through, and stood
looking anxiously from one face of
the party to the other, General Jack
son raised his tall white hat and cour-
teously said: Madam, can we do
anything for you2'
Rather abashed, the poor woman
replied: 4 want to see the Presleent.'
"At this Jackson again raised his
and said: 4 am he and | am glad to
know you, And is that fine boy your
baby? Let me have him.
"The woman handed the dirty
faced infant to Old Hickory. Jackson
took it and held it up before him.
"'Ah! There is a fine specimen of
American childhood. | think,
madam, your boy will make fine
man some day
"Then, with quick gesture, he put
the dirty face of the infant close to
the face of Secretary Eaton, saying
quickly and soberly, Eaton kiss him.
General Eaton pretended to do 50
with a wry face, amid the laughter OF
OF the crowd, and Jackson then hand
ed the baby back to the happy
mother.
President Jackson received a grand
ovation in New York; and at New
port, Concord, Providence and Bos-
ton there were grand demonstrations
in his honor. At Boston, Harvard
College m de him an Ii. D. One OF
the seniors addressed him with a
speech of welcome in Latin. "He
might" as the late Judge David
Davis once said, "as well have talked
to him in Choctaw on the subject of
raising hens, for the whole was unin-
telligible to Old Hickory"
The tour, though successful in win
ming friends for the President, was
full of accidents. In New York the
bridge that connected Castle Garden
with the ba terry gave way with the
weight of the crowd upon it just as
the President landed on the other
side. and precipitated the spectators
into the water. No one was hurt,
though Major Jack Downing says
Governor Marcy tore his pantaloons
and Lewis Cass lost his wig. Again,
according to Parton, who is my
chief authority relative to Jackson's
tours, the Generals horse took fright
going up Broadway, and on one oc-